Dew Drop – August 27, 2008

 

.NET / Visual Studio

• Removing My Visual Studio Tips and Treats Download (Steve Andrews)
• Billy Hollis on Making a Good UI with Windows Presentation Foundation (Joe Stagner)
• Creating a 3D Border Style in WPF (Amit Raz)
• NHibernate 2.0 Changes Overview (Patrick Smacchia)
• NCover Requires Admin Privileges to Run (Tim Barcz)
• Extension Methods Suck (Michael Giagnocavo)
• Parameter Lists in NHibernate and Strategies and Discriminators in NHibernate (Jimmy Bogard)
• To Bind or Not To Bind – Dynamic Expression Trees – Part 1 (Bart de Smet)
• Didja Know? #Develop Has a Class Designer (Oren Eini)
• The .NET Client Profile and Part 2 (Mike Taulty)
• Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS Kick My Axx – Part IX — WAY Too Many Pages (Dave Campbell) – Ah, Crystal Reports, the nemesis of every developer… Why is it that something that should be so simple and be such a pain in the axx?

 

Web Development

• Loading Images Asynchronously Inside an ASP.NET GridView (Suprotim Agarwal)
• Creating Animation – Part 2 (Brian Hunter)
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #38 – Simplify LINQ to SQL with Extension Methods (Stephen Walther)
• Silverlight Tip of the Day #32: How to Declare a Custom User Control from a XAML Page and #33: How to Scale Your Entire App and Its Elements to Your Browser’s Size (Mike Snow)
• Creating a Dynamic, Data-Driven User Interface (Part 2) (Scott Mitchell)
• Dragging Elements in Silverlight with DLRConsole (Jimmy Schementi)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• The Future of Software Testing (Part 2) (James Whittaker)
• Agile Has the Answers? and MbUnit Factory (Andrew Stopford)
• Decoupled Domain Models (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• Beginner’s Guide to Test-Driven Web Part Development (Andrew Woodward)
• PUnit, Sample Unit Test Framework for Team Test – Release v1.0.0.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)
• Agile Development: Why It Rocks, Who It Helps, and Why It’s Failing (Sara J. Chipps)

 

Database

• Completely Scripting a SQL Server Database (Justin Etheredge)
• Download SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1 (Pinal Dave)

 

Miscellaneous

• So Where Were You? (Oren Eini) – Link of the Day
• Nordic Track Book Club Review: Blog! (Dave Burke)
• IE8 Performance (Christian Stockwell)
• Windows Live on Facebook (Sunshine)

 

Events / Community

• Strands Kicks In – More People Powered Partying! (Alex Hillman)
• Silverlight 2 Firestarter (John Papa)
• Need to Get Something Off My Chest (Joe Ocampo)
• Code Camp IronRuby Presentation Materials (Aaron Junod)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: August 26, 2008 – [Rough Draft] and Interesting Finds: August 25, 2008 – [Final Cut] (Jason Haley)
• Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 5 (Web Dev Tools Team)
• LINKBLOG for August 26, 2008 (Arjan Zuidhof)
• Silverlight Cream for August 26, 2008 — #356 (Dave Campbell)
• Links (8/26/2008) (Steve Pietrek)
• WSOAC#30 – Amazon Releases Elastic Block Store (Dilip Krishnan)
• The Morning Brew #166 (Chris Alcock)
• Silverlight News for August 27, 2008 (Nikolay Raychev)
• Double Shot #278 (Mike Gunderloy)

 

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